• @bradorsomething
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    524 days ago

    Much as russia just spent their material legacy capacity in ukraine, the us spent their economic legacy capacity in Iraq/Afghanistan. We are driving around a fancy army we spent too much on, and the payments are hurting.

    • @Maggoty@lemmy.world
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      324 days ago

      We still spend too much on it. We’re following Germany’s fallacy from World War 2 of trying to have all of our equipment be the bestest ever instead of good enough. Accounting for inflation last time I looked we’re spending twice what we were when we invaded Iraq.

      • @barsoap@lemm.ee
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        224 days ago

        There’s no “from WWII” about that we’re still gold-plating equipment.

        • @Maggoty@lemmy.world
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          124 days ago

          That’s… That’s my point. We won world war 2 with equipment that was great strategically and logistically, but was merely good enough tactically. We’ve switched positions. We need to realize that a million man military can’t be gold plated.

          • @barsoap@lemm.ee
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            124 days ago

            I mean Germany is still gold-plating things. Also a million men when did you decide to cut the size of your forces in half.